Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Victory Grill Thursday

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Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Victory Grill Thursday
Thursday, April 29
Victory Grill (1104 East 11th Street)
8 PM, $20
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New Orleans is known in cultural circles as the birthplace of jazz, something that's been reinforced by Ken Burns' documentary and now a prime-time fictional series called Treme. Whether or not one city can lay claim to a literal beginning of an art form is beside the point; New Orleans maintains its place in our landscape precisely because of its connection to jazz music. For saxophonist Edward "Kidd" Jordan, New Orleans has held a slightly different sway because he's one of the few practitioners in the city of modern or avant-garde jazz. Throughout the 1980s, along with Jackson, Mississippi drummer Alvin Fielder, trumpeter Clyde Kerr and bassist London Branch, Jordan participated in the South's preeminent creative music ensemble, the Improvisational Arts Quartet. Along with Fielder, he and Virginia-based pianist/multi-instrumentalist Joel Futterman have also had a longstanding and well-received group.

On Thursday night as part of the Epistrophy Arts spring concert series, Jordan will appear in a trio with drummer Hamid Drake and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, one of Austin's newest artist residents. Jordan and Drake have played together in various groups before, but this will be his first meeting with Flaten - expect the power-trio pyrotechnics to deliver handsomely.